We’ve all heard the same story in school. The Harappan Civilization (Indus Valley) was India’s first great urban culture. Then, when Harappa declined, the Indo-Aryans supposedly migrated into the subcontinent around 1500 BCE, bringing with them Sanskrit, the Vedas, and the beginnings of “civilization” in India. Everything else—the Gangetic kingdoms, the Mauryas, the Sangam Age—was painted as something that came much later. But wait! In 2013-14, archaeologists uncovered a si
